The Double Life of Veronique - Criterion Collection
by Krzysztof Kieslowski
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Actor: Aleksander Bardini, Halina Gryglaszewska, Ir?ne Jacob, Kalina Jedrusik, Wladyslaw KowalskiDirector: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Slawomir Idziak
Writer: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Editor: Jacques Witta
Producer: Bernard-P. Guiremand
Producer: Leonardo De La Fuente
Producer: Ryszard Chutkowski
Writer: Krzysztof Piesiewicz
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Polish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of The Double Life of Veronique - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: A beautiful work of art
Summary: 4 Stars
Throughout his career director Krsysztof Kieslowski worked as a documentary film maker, before doing his doing his most memorable works on film.
His movies offer recurring themes such as coincidences, reverbation, connection, and even parallel lives, and deliver a compelling fly on the wall look at human existence. With Veronique and his famous Blue, White and Red Trilogy, he has crafted some of the most visually memorable movies you will see. In fact, I saw this movie after seeing it recommended on Roger Ebert's website.
It is a simple truth, universally acknowledged that there is little in the world more beautiful and affecting than a beautiful woman in her pristine prime. So it is with Veronique affectingly portrayed by Irene Jacob.
Not only do see her in wonder, in bemusement, and nude and being made love to, like the camera in love with it's object, it's like we step into that life and see the things we would not normally see with an all seeing eye. This is how this movie excels as a work of art. We get to know who she is by how she is.
The only weakness I find is with the story and the characterisation. While Irene Jacob is a compelling presence, the other characters and the story do not develop particularly well.
A little disturbing is the introduction of the puppeteer, a somewhat shadowy and mysterious character, with somewhat of a stalker like obsession with French Veronique. He sends a shoelace through the mail.
Does he represent some sort of all knowing intelligence, and are his intentions towards her actually good? The sequence where he makes love to her while she is sad, could be interpreted a number of ways.
I find Irene Jacob fascinating, and she did another movie with Kiezlowski called Red. I consider that a much better movie, it tells a story, and draws parallels between the old judge and the young man, and I would call Red a masterful work. Red is part of a trilogy, yet it is a stand alone movie. It also garnered three Oscar nominations. Unfortunately, Red proved to be his last movie. I do recommend both movies.
Summary of The Double Life of Veronique - Criterion Collection
Krzysztof Kieslowski's international breakthrough remains one of his most beloved films, a ravishing, mysterious rumination on identity, love, and human intuition. Ir?ne Jacob is incandescent as both Weronika, a Polish choir soprano, and her double, V?ronique, a French music teacher. Though unknown to each other, the two women share an enigmatic, purely emotional bond, which Kieslowski details in gorgeous reflections, colors, and movements. Aided by Slawomir Idziak's shimmering cinematography and Zbigniew Preisner's haunting, operatic score, Kieslowski creates one of cinema's most purely metaphysical works: The Double Life of V?ronique is an unforgettable symphony of feeling.Art House & International DVD Video
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